News & Notes Volume II, No. 45

Submitted by Loren Gatch New... on Tue, 05/02/2017 - 22:08

[NB: Links from previous issues may go stale, and rather quickly at that. Sorry!]

A documentary on the $2 bill (Huffington Post).
"Cashless Society Getting Closer" (Reuters).
New Czech chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
New book on Latvian banknotes (E-Sylum).
Banknotes of Persia (CoinsWeekly, via E-Sylum).
Highlights of the Newman sale (E-Sylum).
Identifying vehicle vignettes (E-Sylum).
A new 50,000 franc note from Togo (Togo Top, in French).
New banknotes for Madagascar (Moov, in French).
"Why Europe Still Needs Cash" (Project Syndicate).
In the Age of Trump, will Tubman still appear on the $20? (Daily Beast).
SPEND those fivers, before they cease to be legal tender (Birmingham Mail). Get rid of your fivers by donating them to charity (Civil Society).
Grammar Nazis threaten Britain (Metro). And here (Elle).
Bermuda notes on display (The Royal Gazette).
Reasons for the fat in polymer notes (Education in Chemistry).
The new signatures on U.S. paper money (Numismatic News).
FirstBank of Nebraska's 135th birthday (Wahoo Newspaper).
Monetizing livestock in Zimbabwe (Quartz). Zimbabwe's "phantom" money (All Africa).
Trying to spend Zimbabwean goat currency (Youtube, video).

Reconnaissance high security printing conference-Latin America, Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 19-21, 2017 (Reconnaissance)
Security Document World conference, London June 26-28, 2017 (Security Document World).
The Currency Conference, May 14-17, 2017, Kuala Lumpur (Currency Conference).
The Future of Cash conference, Vienna, Austria, October 4-5, 2017 (Reconnaissance).

Postal service refuses to deliver cannabis cash (The Cannabist).
Walmart register spat out $20s instead of $5s (WNCN).

(in no particular order)

Newman Numismatic Portal
Numismatic Bibliomania Society
The American Revenue Association (Hobby website).
The American Historical Print Collectors Society (Hobby website).
International Bank Note Society (useful features even for non-members).
The Banknote Den (David Lok's website, with superb essays as well as a link to his book, The Many Faces of Money).
The Higgins Museum (the one in Okoboji, IA, not Worcester, MA)
The Currency Collector (more good essays by John Sandrock).
COINWeek (numismatic aggregator with some paper money content).
MRI Bankers' Guide (for its updates of new banknotes).
Mujand (fantasy banknote maker).
Alternative Banknotes and Coins (Alternatehistory). Fantasy thread.
Stane Straus's Polymer Banknotes of the World
Banknote News (roundup of news and promotional website for The Banknote Book).
Tom Chao (collector's blog with active updates).
Stevenbron Banknotes (collector's blog with active updates).
Mintage World (online museum of Indian numismatics).
Chattanooga Money (site details historical episodes in Chattanooga, Tennessee's monetary and banking history)
Banknotesworld ("THE German-language Banknote forum") Discussion threads and more.
Scotsbanknotes
Counting on Currency (Industry website).
Kuster's Engineering (Company website). Your expert in currency disintegration.
PYMNTS.com (Industry website).
Currency Research (Industry website).
International Banknote Designers Association (Industry website)
International Association of Currency Affairs (Industry website).
International Banknote Designers Association (Industry website).
De La Rue (Company website).
Secura Monde International (Company website). Good banknote news feed.
Giesecke & Devrient (Company website).
Patronus Systems (Company website).
Our Passports (travel documents and other ephemera)
Social Money (a Flickr album of photographs illustrating modern complementary currencies, heavy on Argentina).
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (search for banknotes etc.).
Where's George? (currency tracking project).
Banknoter
Numismondo
CoinsWeekly, especially its fine list of links to museums and other numismatic resources.
Blog du CNA (Club Numismatique d'Argenteuil)
French Banknotes of War (Collector's website). Abundant material in English and French.
AFEP Association Française pour l'Étude du Papier-monnaie
Monnaies Locales Complementaires
Guild of Independent Currencies (promotes local currencies in the U.K.)
Our Money (Eurozone currency).
The Ephemera Society of America
Fictional currency galleries (Deviant Art).
Pakistani Currency

Loren Gatch News & Notes's blog
Log in or register to post comments

More like this

Advertisement

Donation

Shopping Cart

Thank You!

Advertisement

News & Notes Volume II, No. 45

More like this

Advertisement

Search

Donation

Shopping Cart

Thank You!

Advertisement